gainage

From Old French gaignage (“pasturage, crop”), French gaignage (“pasturage”). See gain (verb).

gainage (uncountable)

1. (UK, law, obsolete) The horses, oxen, ploughs, wains or wagons and implements for carrying on tillage.
2. The profit made by tillage; also, the land itself^[1]

• “gainage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From gaine +‎ -age. See gainer.

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gainage m (plural gainages)

1. sheathing, sleeving

• “gainage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.